(This photo and caption appeared in the Friday, March 16, 2018, edition of the Daily Sitka Sentinel. It is reprinted here with permission.)

BIKE PRESENTED —Mount Verstovia Masonic Lodge members, Ed Phillips, left, and Darrell Windsor, second from left, present a new bicycle to third-grader Alice Ann Ricketts, 8, center, at Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School class recently. Her mother, Kristin Bartels, right, and brother, Blake Ricketts Jr., sitting at right, are with her. The Sitka Mount Verstovia Masonic Lodge is once again donating a bicycle to one student from each third-grade class, who are selected by their teachers based on the students’ behavior in class and display of good citizenship. Yellow Jersey Cycle Shop donates a helmet and lock as part of the prize. (Daily Sitka Sentinel photo by James Poulson).

(This photo and caption appeared in the Friday, March 9, 2018, edition of the Daily Sitka Sentinel. It is reprinted here with permission.)

BIKE PRESENTED —Mount Verstovia Masonic Lodge members, Jerald Neel, left, and Darrell Windsor, right, present a new bicycle to third-grader Bristol Clifton, 9, at Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School class recently (Bristol is wearing a unicorn costume for a school spirit day). The Sitka Mount Verstovia Masonic Lodge is once again donating a bicycle to one student from each third-grade class, who are selected by their teachers based on the students’ behavior in class and display of good citizenship. Yellow Jersey Cycle Shop donates a helmet and lock as part of the prize. (Daily Sitka Sentinel photo by James Poulson).